Meme smarter, not harder. 🤌

I can’t help but read MTG as Magic the Gathering and it makes these headlines kinda sorta bearable.

On the flip side, if you still need a power cable anyway, it’s usually way cheaper to bundle the media (and optionally control/network) signals into the same cable than using wireless. (Sidenote: Honestly it’s kinda weird to me that we haven’t seen hardly any of this in consumer spaces. The newer USB-C revisions could easily supply power, display, audio, and network to the average TV over one cable.)

Now, with true wireless power (I’m thinking of this video in particular), that proposition can change dramatically.

I’m proud of them for not giving that a cringe acronym like JUMP, BOOST, EXCEL, or, oh gosh, LEARN. 😵‍💫

I would say on social media we’re surrounded by current fake friends, while IRL we’re surrounded by potential real friends.

So as someone who actually believes in God (unlike most of the commenters so far)… wat?

I see what you’re trying to do, but the real problem is streaming services that prioritize the shareholder and new user signups over existing customers’ experience.

I agree, six words is short.

If it’s mostly mineral buildup just soaking it in white vinegar for an hour will dissolve it all and make it look and function as if it were new.

I would travel the US and buy one winning ticket for a small jackpot from each state I visit. Then I’d donate it all to a gambling addiction recovery charity. Or an advertising smear campaign against playing the lotto.

Being able to maintain the ratio with fluctuating water pressure would be cool too. It’s probably possible to do entirely mechanically.

Idk, I can think of plenty. Pricing models (finding comps and such) can be compiled in a fraction of the time! Online listings have AI-generated images of what different remodel options could look like! So on and so forth.

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I’ll also add, besides the obvious public endangerment, street racers are just soooo fricking loud. Noise ordinances exist for a reason, but even where they don’t, nobody likes being woken up by a bunch of metal death boxes screeeaaaming past their window at 3am. (Near me, it’s a posse of motorbikes. I typed that as motorbiles at first. Heh.)

If I understand you correctly, I think “people don’t easily comprehend the significance of increasing orders of magnitude” is a better way to frame it. To use iii’s examples, people perceive a coffee that costs 5 as being 1 unit more than a coffee costing 4. But when comparing two cars costing 40000 and 50000, the human brain tends to just latch on to the most significant digit, and starts to see it the same way: just one unit more.

Tangentially, given our brains’ difficulty processing large numbers, I wonder if this effect leads to money management skills being worse on average in economies with smaller base currency units, such as the Japanese Yen, Indian Rupee, South Korean Won, or for an extreme case study, the Iranian Rial, which currently exchanges at 49,313 IRR ≈ 1 EUR. When your haircut costs 1200000, a new phone costs 18700000, and a new car costs 1331400000, it’s hard to judge the weight of your decisions. When the slightly nicer car costs 1645200000, it’s near impossible to notice that you just spent your coffee money for an entire year (~5 days a week for 50 weeks) on a moonroof and Apple CarPlay. Not sure if that example is applicable to the average Iranian, but eh.

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…is the most cursed thing I’ve seen all day. Especially so when you realize that when you convert it to a decimal of 1.25, the sentence is completely correct. Bravo. 😅👏

Idk, I think that depends on the context in which the rainbow is viewed.

I like to say “cooking with magnets” because 1) it sounds cooler and 2) when people look at me weird I can immediately launch into my spiel about how induction heating is superior to gas in every way.

At least it’s your own brain exploiting you instead of some shadowy cabal of advertising execs and astroturf campaign strategists?

My vote is for a name that I just made up, Aarana. It’s the female form of Aaron, with all a’s. 😄